The Shape of the Sword

Metadata

• Media: #shortstory
  • Author: [[!Jorge Luis Borges]]
  • From: B-Ficciones
  • Status: read
  • Date: 2020-08-21
  • Tags: #historical
  • Rating: ★★★★☆
  • Idea richness: ★★☆☆☆

Summary

SPOILERS: An unreliable narrator relates the tale of how he got his scar. You think him the hero and he narrates from that man's perspective but is actually the other man, the coward, in the story. His scar was inflicted by the other man after he betrayed him.

Thoughts

[[!Jorge Luis Borges]] is at it again with the Plot twists and unique literary devices. This time, a could be mundane tale is elevating by the reveal that the intimidating narrator is actually the coward from the story he is telling from the hero's perspective.

Highlights

• "I seized upon patriotism, that least discerning of passions."

Scrapbook Concepts

• "...scimitars from Nishapur, in whose frozen crescents the wind and violence of battle seemed to be living on."